Do I need a dentist or a doctor?

Intifada

Basically I am long overdue for a surgical extraction on a rotten wisdom tooth. I'm in massive amounts of intermittent pain around my teeth, side of jaw, ear etc - but I've also noticed a swelling/lump at the back of my throat and the side of my neck often gets really tense/spasms and hurts a good deal. I expect the infection has spread and/or I have an abscess.

Do I go to a dentist or the hospital, GP etc?

Oral Surgeon

Intifada wrote: »

Basically I am long overdue for a surgical extraction on a rotten wisdom tooth. I'm in massive amounts of intermittent pain around my teeth, side of jaw, ear etc - but I've also noticed a swelling/lump at the back of my throat and the side of my neck often gets really tense/spasms and hurts a good deal. I expect the infection has spread and/or I have an abscess.

Do I go to a dentist or the hospital, GP etc?

Dentist or oral surgeon. Any difficulty in breathing or swallowing go to A&E asap...

OS

Intifada

Thanks. And yes, I'd go to A&E with that of course!

I actually rang an oral surgeon there and they quoted me something like €1100 to get the wisdom tooth taken out.... for real?

Oral Surgeon

Intifada wrote: »

Thanks. And yes, I'd go to A&E with that of course!

I actually rang an oral surgeon there and they quoted me something like €1100 to get the wisdom tooth taken out.... for real?

1 wisdom tooth should be nothing like that. there is the extraction fee approx €300 and sometimes iv sedation fee or GA fee depending on what you want.... IV sedation typically is about €250. GA is very expensive as you are paying for the private hospital to do it....

€1100 is too much imo....

Intifada

They said something along the lines of €350 'hospital' fee (or €600 in their clinic), €350 anaesthetist fee and €400 for the procedure.

Oral Surgeon

Intifada wrote: »

They said something along the lines of €350 'hospital' fee (or €600 in their clinic), €350 anaesthetist fee and €400 for the procedure.

IMO GA for wisdom teeth is usually unnecessary and expensive....

Intifada

What's the alternative? LA? Bearing in mind this is a surgical extraction.

Also what am I supposed to do in the meantime? Steady diet of paracetemol/nurofen?

the_syco

Intifada wrote: »

Thanks. And yes, I'd go to A&E with that of course!

I actually rang an oral surgeon there and they quoted me something like €1100 to get the wisdom tooth taken out.... for real?

Ring around a few different places, including up north. I'm saying up north as €1100 seems excessively high.

Oral Surgeon

Intifada wrote: »

What's the alternative? LA? Bearing in mind this is a surgical extraction.

Also what am I supposed to do in the meantime? Steady diet of paracetemol/nurofen?

LA is fine for one tooth, surgical or not...

If nervous, you can have IV sedation, this works really well for oral surgery...

Lia_lia

I had two impacted wisdom teeth surgically removed with LA. No need for sedation or anything like that. Took a while, but was grand! Cost about €500 I think, and that was for two of them.

Intifada

Out of interest, the people who are on the public waiting list which I presume is 6+ months - how do they get by day to day?